Meet Our Clinicians
We provide highly-trained and compassionate staff to help you meet your wellness goals. Certain mental health professionals work best with specific issues and demographics. When you meet with our access clinician, they will match you with a mental health professional that best fits your needs. We encourage you to get to know our clinical team by reading more below.
Aidan Wandschneider
Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Specialist
At 18, Aidan was formally diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This led him on the extraordinarily difficult path of learning how to fight and manage the disability in his day-to-day life through various therapies, medicines, and hospitalizations.
This daily wrestle has provided him with a deep personal understanding into the many forms of mental illness, as bipolar gives him the ability to relate to others following similar paths to his. Aidan is now constantly challenging himself and pushing the boundaries of his disorder.
He’s become a probationary firefighter and first responder for Joseph Fire, a crisis line operator, and previous hotline manager for SafeHarbors, and most recently a peer support and crisis intervention specialist here at Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness.
He’s dedicated himself to meeting others where they are at in life and providing personal experience into the nuances of mental illness to his coworkers. He hopes that his long and ever-continuing story can be a beacon to those who are where he once was.
Andi Mitchell
Case Manager
Andi is a Case Manager. Case managers help individuals manage day-to-day life, navigate systems, and provide skill training. Her goal is to help each client live a hopeful and secure life. She works mostly out in the community with clients so you rarely see her at the office.
Andi comes to us with a diverse background. She has been a long-line deckhand, short-order cook, wilderness trail builder, tree planter, and librarian tech. Andi has also worked as a Fish Range and Forestry Biologist for private, state, federal and tribal agencies and as a firefighter, irrigator, wrangler, and alongside her cowboy husband at the McClaran’s Ranch.
Besides her extensive career, she has been a child advocate for 20 some years and a foster parent for some of that. Andi has always been fascinated by how people shape themselves and others and is excited that her role with us will help others to grow and shape themselves in positive ways.
Annie Tomlinson
School Counselor
Clinical Intern
Annie is in her last year of graduate school and is completing her clinical internship at Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. She will be serving as the school counselor for Enterprise and Wallowa Schools, and with clients in the community.
Annie has been working with youth for more than ten years. She started in the outdoor adventure field, working as a sea canoe guide in the San Juan Islands and as program coordinator for Northwest Outdoor Science School on the Oregon Coast.
Ashley Collier
Wraparound Youth Partner & Skills Trainer
Ashley is a Wraparound youth partner and a skills trainer at Enterprise School and Joseph Charter School. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Health from Western Oregon University. She is a former foster youth, first-generation high school and college graduate, with years of personal lived experience using resources similar to those provided at the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. Ashley is determined to use all of the challenges she faced as a child and teen to help youth find their voice and encourage them to have an active role in meeting their goals in order to have a successful future. She has experience working with kids of all ages in a variety of settings and has a passion for making sure they feel heard and seen. As a youth partner and skills trainer, she will be working one on one with youth to include them in the conversations about their strengths and visions for their lives.
Brandon Miller, CSWA, CADC-R
Mental Health Clinician & Crisis Coordinator
Brandon is a Clinical Social Work Associate and Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor-R. He enjoys helping people to live their life to the fullest extent, by using therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Existential Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, (DBT), and many others. Brandon is able to meet you where you are at, using Trauma-Informed methods, to help you accomplish the goals you have set out to accomplish. Whether your goals are related to mental well-being or recovering from an addiction, Brandon is here to walk with you down the path of building resilience, recovery, and growth.
Specialty: Adults, First Responder, Faith-based
Education: Master of Social Work (MSW), Boise State University and BS in Psychology, Capella University
Carrise Murray, QMHP
Mental Health Clinician
School Counselor
WRAP and EASA Program Coordinator
Carrise is a Master’s of Social Work intern and works as a school counselor and WRAP and EASA Program Coordinator for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. Carrise loves working with youth and helping them face the unique challenges and stressors that come with navigating through adolescence. Many adolescents experience anxiety and depression, and Carrise works with them to develop healthy coping skills and develop positive outlooks on life while working through their current struggles.
Carrise has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and is currently working towards her Master’s in Social Work. Carrise also has many life experiences that aid in her ability to empathize and understand challenges people face, including being a veteran, a single mother, a grandmother, and a parent of youth who have struggled with losses, depression, and anxiety.
Daniel McRee, MSW
Mental Health Clinician
School Counselor
Daniel is a mental health clinician and school counselor for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. He has a passion for working with marginalized and vulnerable youth and young adults, helping them navigate challenging systems and build their lives on their own terms. He has previously worked with people facing incarceration and young adults experiencing homelessness. Originally from Southern Appalachia, Daniel is excited to be a part of the Wallowa County community and graduated from Portland State University’s School of Social Work with his Master’s degree.
Specialty: youth
Dennis Harvey
Veteran Peer Support Specialist
Dr. Josh Boverman
Psychiatrist
Dr. Boverman (or Dr. B as he is affectionately called) is proud to be a psychiatrist and Medical Director for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. He received his medical degree from the Oregon Health & Sciences University in 1993, and completed his specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Washington and at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University. He has been in practice since 1998. He has worked as a teacher, clinician, and educator in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Oregon Health & Sciences University. He also worked overseas for the US Department of State, providing psychiatric care to Americans serving abroad in the State Department, the military, and other branches of government.
Individuals often meet with Dr. Boverman because they have symptoms like depression or anxiety, and wonder if a medication could help. Sometimes they wonder if their medications should be stopped, or adjusted. He also prescribes psychiatric medications when needed. Sometimes your counselor recommends you for medication management, to help towards a diagnosis, or to consider laboratory/medical assessment. When this happens, you will see Dr. Boverman.
Dylan Edwards, CADC I
Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor
Dylan Edwards is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor for our Substance Use Disorder Program. Dylan brings a wealth of experience working with adolescents and facilitating therapeutic wilderness experiences to his work. His clinical focus is on establishing a deep and supportive understanding of your life to help begin working toward an active and satisfying life. Dylan will cheer you on to success whatever your individual goals. Your happiness and well-being are his number one priority.
Specialty: Substance Use Disorder
Ella Barber
Family & Youth Support Specialist
Ella works in our youth programs. Ella enjoys being there for them, specifically being someone they can talk to and do activities with. Seeing their faces light up and fill with smiles makes Ella's day. They are amazing individuals and Ella does her best to remind them of that each and every day.